Coming from a Java background, Garbage collection _can not_ come soon
enough. All this memory management code is really just cluttering up
my source files and in my opinion shows just how far behind the times
the C languages are. In the 5 years that I used java I never had to
track down a "retain/release or malloc/delete" issue once. In the
year and half that I have been doing Obj-C and C++ I have had to
spend countless hours tracking down memory leaks. Garbage collection
is "a good thing" and should be embraced where it makes sense.
This is the 21rst century.. In my little utopian world memory
management is a solved problem. I want to work on my own problems not
try to get right how to retain/release or malloc/delete.
DISCLAIMER: I am new to C++ and Objective-C so some of the memory
leaks were obviously newbie mistakes as I was not familiar enough
with the memory model for each language. Of course when I learned
Java, I was in the same newbie boat but I still did not have to track
down a memory leak once because Garbage collection did it for me.
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Mike Jackson
imikejackson <at> gmail <dot> com
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